Shelfmark
Ap.05 - Ap.06
Author
Title
The ecclesiastical architecture of Italy : from the time of Constantine to the fifteenth century / with an introduction and text by Henry Gally Knight esq.e F.R.S. F.S.A.
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : published by Henry Bohn, 1842-1844.
Physical description
2 v. (81 leaves of plates) : ill. (3 col.; incl. plan) ; 57 cm.
Note
Title printed in blue, red and gold, within illuminated border.
Note
Contains eighty one plates, numbered on accompanying letterpress, including three plates chromolithograped by Owen Jones in vol. 1. The plates are lithographed by George Belton Moore, Thomas Talbot Bury and Robert Kent Thomas after Domenico Quaglio, J. Aliusetti and Edward Lear, and executed by Day & Haghe, lithographers to the Queen.
Note
Title page in each vol. is a chromolithograph by Owen Jones after G. Moore.
Provenance
Given to Eton College Library by the author (i.e. Henry Gally Knight). Letter addressed to the then Head Master, Edward Craven Hawtrey, from Knight, dated March 16 1843, pasted before t.p. of first vol.
Provenance
Armorial bookplate of Eton College in second volume.
Binding
Contemporary half dark brown leather; boards covered in dark brown lozenge binders cloth; title gold pressed onto front boards, with elaborate decorative frame; title gold tooled on spine; yellow endpapers.
Copy-specific note
Previous shelfmark: Bi.1.2-3.
Subject
Church buildings Italy.
Subject
Architecture, Medieval Italy.
Subject
Church architecture Italy.
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Bohn, Henry G. (Henry George), 1796 - 1884 publisher.
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Jones, Owen, 1809 - 1874 lithographer.
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England London
Identifier
B29325